Ciara
“Like A Boy”
Ciara: The Evolution
LaFace Records
Director: Diane Martel
Ciara reunites with director Diane Martel for her third single and music video from “Ciara: The Evolution”, titled “Like A Boy” which is about the double standards of men and women in society (men being able to do certain things whereas when …

So, the buzz about this new album is certainly flowing around the heavy metal landscape as anticipation rises to near manic status. I was blessed with an advance copy of this album to have a look at and i must say that i am pretty underwhelmed by the whole …

Back Pack is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears as the fourth track on their record Knife Man. Opening up with a brooding rhythm guitar, the vocals come in soon enough and I would characterize this song as having more of a ballad feeling. Although the previous …

What do you guys think of Back To Black by Amy Winehouse? As for me personally, I think that album by Amy this time round is kind of better. But only if she could change her image for a bit, to make it better or some sort, it …

Pieces Of What is a song by MGMT which appears on their second release, Oracular Spectacular. At this point in the album, the previous six tracks have all been brilliant, but unfortunately I’d say Pieces Of What is where the album goes from brilliant to just sort of solid. …

Ten Years After, I’m Coming Home, released in 1996, compilation.
A band that defintelt stands the test of time is Ten Years After. Alvin Lee and company could really belt out the jams. It’s sad that a lot of teenagers into heavier music today don’t realize how important the …

American Pie is a classic American song that will remain an American favorite throughout history. It was released in 1972 in honor of Buddy Holly and the plane crash that took his life along with several other people including Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. The song is all …

This is a great first album from this new pop punk band. More on the pop side than punk but still there. The lead singer embodies that sort of upper middle class dissolute rakish character and it works well. They’re certainly not the most intellectual band …

Saturday’s Warrior, just an inspiration play that is beyond words, has many memorable songs from it, all from the hands of lyricist Doug Stewart and Lex De Azevedo, who did the music while also serving as the play’s producer. My third favorite song from this play is a …

Pearl Jam’s Rearviewmirror Greatest Hits 1991-2003 is a super two disc CD set. Some of my favorite songs from this fabulous CD include Dissident, Save You, Daughter, Given To Fly, Man Of The Hour, Black, Once, and Alive. Pearl Jam’s Rearviewmirror Greatest Hits 1991-2003 is a super rock n …

Bun b has been considered a southern hip hop legend since the early 90’s. As one half a the group UGK he has been making music for 20 years now. Bun b has just released is second studio solo album named Thrill 2. This album has had alot of …

From the opening strum of the song, you will eventually come to a conclusion that it will be great. Every time I hear the opening melody I always have the feeling that the song will be great throughout, and that instinct is always right, the song is pure EDM …

The Tracy Lawrence: Tracy Lawrence At His Best CD contains 21 songs from this country western music singer, many of which did pretty good on the charts over the years. It opens up with a stirring song called While You Sleep which I really enjoyed tremendously.
I got a …

New Faces is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Voodoo Lounge. New Faces starts off with a harpsichord part, something I wasn’t expecting at all, which gives the song sort of a royal or majestic feeling. Jagger comes in with the vocals of the …

Keep Holding On by Avril Lavinge is a song that is a beautiful ballad. This song is sad but it gives some people hope when they know someone else is willing to stay with them through any thing. I love this song for the hope it fills you with …

Mastodon is literally not your average Metal band. In our American wasteland of poor excuses for Metal(with the exception of Tool, Deftones, System of a Down, a small handful of other exceptional bands), Mastodon reigns supreme as one of the top bands to emerge from America’s underground scene. Usually, …

This album is really great. I was actually very surprised to find out that this album was not an actual album of new material but it was a compilation album that consisted of the songs Kid Rock had written for his early albums in the 1990s, when he was …

This is Ashes Divide’s debut album released in 2008 produced by Danny Lohner and Billy Howerdel. Ashes Divide was originally going to be Billy Howerdel’s side project outside of A Perfect Circle, originally he wasn’t going to be the vocalist, he decided to step up and do vocals as …

I’m not totally a fan of girl groups but something about this song caught my attention. I was originally browsing in Instagram when one of my friends posted a song that what I thought to be original. It had a caption “Secret Love Song” and I listened to it, …

Overview —“ South Of Heaven, the fourth album released by Slayer, definitely slowed things down after the extremely thrash driven Reign In Blood. I know that when people tend to think of slayer they think of extremely heavy metal, but more importantly, they think of extremely fast metal. When …

Pop music has never been the same since Michael Jackson came along. I have enjoyed Michael Jackson’s music since I was just a small child. He was a child as well and the Jackson 5 were one of the biggest music groups around at the time. Eventually, Michael went …

R. Kelly
“Snake”
Chocolate Factory
Jive Records
I guess the ghetto-ness of songs like “Ignition (Remix)” and “Feeling On Yo’ Booty” were beginning to run dry for R. Kelly so now he’s decided to depart from his ghetto ways and do something out of the ordinary, taking a page from Mystikal’s “Danger” video …

Lady Gaga’s new album “Born This way,” tells her fans to be comfortable and to love themselves for who they really are. On May 23, places like Amazon, Best buy and Itunes went flooded with 1.1 millions sales on the release of Lady Gaga’s new album “Born This way,” …

Don’t Trust Me by 3OH!3 (pronounced 303) is a great song that has recently come out. However, due to its popularity, the song has become slightly overplayed. I had this song recommended to me on itunes months before it became popular and now it played so frequently, …

At first I thought this collaboration album was going to be below average on my expectations but I was dead wrong. The Maybach Music Group (MMG) consists of rappers; Rick Ross, Wale, Meek Mill, Pill, Teedra Moses and Gunplay. Their first collaboration album titled ” Self Made Vol. 1″ …

No One is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which is the ninth song on their newest release, Knife Man. Opening up with a simplistic drum rhythm and some other subtle instruments playing along, the vocals soon come into the track and the vocal delivery surprisingly has a blues-sound …

Overview —“ St. Anger, the title track of Metallica’s 2003 release is one of many tracks that fans couldn’t stop criticizing and insulting. I don’t want to make this whole review where I give my opinion on the actual album itself, because I didn’t like it either, but this …

Nickelback makes great music. The sound is awesome and I really enjoy listening to their sound. I love the drums that are played in most of their songs. The music that flows from Nickelback’s band is nothing short of great. Nickelback rarely makes bad music and they haven’t made bad …

My wife were watching our nightly episode of the show Destination Truth on Netflix Instant Watch last night and, when it was done, realized it wasn’t even 9 yet. Since it was too early to go to bed, we looked for something else to watch.
At first, I thought we …

Artist: Destiny’s Child ft. Wyclef Jean
Video: No, No, No (Part 2)
Album: Destiny’s Child
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Darren Grant
“No, No, No (Part 2)” is the second single and music video from Destiny’s Child self-titlted debut album, followed by the previous first part of “No, No, No” (which altogether basically counts as …

This is a very beautiful record. Its beauty is very fine and well crafted. After you listen to this album for the first time, you might think that this record is not very rich in content, but in that case, you would be wrong, since this music is such …

All Alone is a song by The Gorillaz which appears on their record Demon Days. The song opens up with an interesting electronic rhythm which is then accompanied by a vocal section which sings a repetitive chant of “all alone”. Throughout this section of the track the overall mood …

Ransom “Pain & Glory (Co-Starring DJ Clue & Big Mike)” is a real good mixtape. Cosigned by both DJ Clue and Big Mike, Ransom is one half of the A-Team and he represents New Jersey. But with the split of Ransom & Hitchcock from A-Team, Ransom doesn’t …

The Tracks - A Hard Day’s Night, the third album by The Beatles, features a variety of different songs on here. There’s the more melodic songs, the energetic and rock driven songs, the pop-orientated songs, but also the songs that show signs of mature songwriting and more developed ideas. …

One less lonely girls is the second single of Justin Bieber from his album My World. The lyric is generic co-written and produced by Usher, Ezekiel Lewis, Balewa Muhammad, Sean Hamilton and Hyuk Shin.
The video starts when Justin and the girl meet in the Laundromat and the girl …

Winning Ugly is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Dirty Work. The track opens up with a distinct bass rhythm accompanied by a drum part as well. Richards’ leads come in throughout this section as well as a synthesizer part, which I personally doesn’t …

I started listening to Ashanti during the early 2003 period, I think. And I thought that she has a pretty good voice. During that time, the existence of Rihanna in the music industry wasn’t born yet and Ashanti was one of the young talents out there, besides the …

Peacebone is a song by Animal Collective and the opening track on their record Strawberry Jam. Opening up with synthesized noise, Peacebone doesn’t start out with the best sound, but the vocals and a more definitive thankfully enter the mix fairly quickly which helps the song to establish a …

I actually heard the song entitled “All because of you” for the first time on MTV. They were having a countdown and this song was one of the featured songs with a video to go along with it as well. All because of you is a song by an …

Getting Smaller, a song by Nine Inch Nails for their record With Teeth, is quite an aggressive song and certainly strikes me as one of Reznor’s better songs, at least for this record at least. Getting Smaller is a pretty straightforward track which wastes no time getting into the …

This is not the only song I love with Otown; it is just that this is memorable because someone sang it for me. What I am not sure is, if he deliberately means the words. This song uses metaphor to describe what this song is trying to convey.
Let me …

I recently got Eminem’s brand new music album, Relapse. I have been a die hard fan of Eminem’s music (And his straight-forward approach towards celebrities). The album has put up a great approach towards music, as this album incorporates a story within itself. Their are great CD covers, and …

P. Diddy ft. Black Rob and Mark Curry
“Bad Boy For Life”
The Saga Continues…
Bad Boy Entertainment
It was made apparent from the previous “Let’s Get It” and the current “Bad Boy For Life” music videos that P. Diddy had come back strong, stronger than ever. “Bad Boy For LIfe” is the …

Bruce Dickinson is the lead singer of Iron Maiden, but aside that he has also made a name for himself as a Solo Artists over the years releasing many powerful and unique metal albums, similar in sound to his band, Iron Maiden, but different in a sense of originality …

Heart Of Mine is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Shot Of Love. The song starts off with a piano part which then leads into Dylan singing some lyrics before the rest of the instrumentation soon comes in. The lyrics focus on Dylan, or the …

“Don’t Know What You Got Till It’s Gone
Performer: Cinderella
I can officially add “Don’t Know What You Got Till It’s Gone” performed by Cinderella as my favorite take me back song. As I was listening to “Nobody’s Fool”, there was a sidebar of other videos posted by users; I kept …

Lonely Day is a song by System Of A Down and is the penultimate track on Hypnotize, the second half of their double album Mezmerize/Hypnotize. Something to take note of is that Daron Malakian takes lead vocals on this track and this really isn’t a song to be listening …

When it comes to dark jazz, the average listener tends to think of the melancholic and sedative performances of the likes of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, perhaps even Miles Davis in his addiction years. But what most don’t realize is that, as a genre, dark jazz had never fully …

Mountains Of The Moon is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on Aoxomoxoa. The track starts off in a very melodic fashion and opens up with a nice rhythm played on what sounds to me to be a harpsichord. Garcia sings along with this rhythm as an …

Plug In Baby is a track by Muse which appears on Origin Of Symmetry. Along with Knights Of Cydonia, Plug In Baby seems to be one of the more well known songs by Muse, because it appeared on I believe Guitar Hero or possibly Rock Band. However, the difference …